Departmental Staff

Susan Kramer: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many disabled people were hired by her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what percentage of the overall workforce these figures represented in each year; and how many disabled people left employment in her Department over the same period.

Vera Baird: Data on the disability status of entrants and leavers in the Department for Constitutional Affairs for 2005, 2004 and 2003 is in the following tables.
	Data for 2001 and 2002 could not be produced without incurring disproportionate cost.
	Central data on disability statistics is collected via a voluntary confidential questionnaire, which is sent to all staff.
	
		
			  Table AF: Entrants by department and disability status 2002-03, non industrial and industrial staff 
			   Headcount 
			  Lord Chancellors Department  
			 Disabled 20 
			 All entrants 1,610 
			 Disabled entrants as a percentage of all entrants 1.1 
			 Staff in post 12,530 
		
	
	
		
			  Table AF: Entrants by department and disability status 2003-04, non industrial and industrial staff 
			   Headcount 
			  Department for Constitutional Affairs  
			 Disabled 20 
			 All entrants 1,250 
			 Disabled entrants as a percentage of all entrants 1.4 
			 Staff in post 12,750 
		
	
	
		
			  Table AE: Entrants by department and disability status 2004-05, non industrial and industrial staff 
			   Headcount 
			  Department for Constitutional Affairs  
			 Disabled 10 
			 All entrants 1,530 
			 Disabled entrants as a percentage of all entrants 0.3 
			 Staff in post 13,610 
		
	
	
		
			  Table AJ: Leavers by department and disability status 2002-03, non industrial and industrial staff 
			   Headcount 
			  Lord Chancellors Department  
			 Disabled 50 
			 All leavers 1,130 
			 Disabled leavers as a percentage of all leavers 4.5 
			 Staff in post 12,530 
		
	
	
		
			  Table AJ: Leavers by department and disability status 2003-04, non industrial and industrial staff 
			  
			   Headcount 
			  Department for Constitutional Affairs  
			 Disabled 40 
			 All leavers 1,190 
			 Disabled leavers as a percentage of all leavers 3.2 
			 Staff in post 12,750 
		
	
	
		
			  Table AI: Leavers by department and disability status 2004-05, non industrial and industrial staff 
			   Headcount 
			  Department for Constitutional Affairs  
			 Disabled 30 
			 All leavers 1,120 
			 Disabled leavers as a percentage of all leavers 2.9 
			 Staff in post 13,610

Truancy

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 24 July 2006,  Official Report, column 852W, on truancy, how many pupils there were in maintained mainstream secondary schools in each year since 1997-98 in  (a) rural and  (b) non-rural areas; what definition of rurality his Department uses; and if he will make a statement.

Jim Knight: holding answer 18 September 2006
	The pupil numbers requested are given in the following table.
	
		
			  Number of pupils in maintained mainstream secondary schools( 1)  in England 
			   Rural areas  Urban areas  Total 
			 1997/98 389,283 2,620,531 3,009,814 
			 1998/99 402,315 2,704,363 3,106,678 
			 1999/2000 414,166 2,755,831 3,169,997 
			 2000/01 418,311 2,789,619 3,207,930 
			 2001/02 428,546 2,829,683 3,258.229 
			 2002/03 435,721 2,863,511 3,299,232 
			 2003/04 440,185 2,882,159 3,322,344 
			 2004/05 445,273 2,880,806 3,326,079 
			 2005/06(2) 446,159 2,888,092 3,334,251 
			 (1) Includes middle schools as deemed. Excludes city technology colleges.(2) Provisional. 
		
	
	The urban and rural classifications used in this table are based on those drawn up in 2004 by the Countryside Agency, DEFRA, ODPM, ONS and the Welsh Assembly Government. The classification is based on population densities across the whole spectrum of 'settlements', or built-up areas, in England and Wales. Urban areas are defined as settlements with a population of 10,000 or more. Census Output Areas (OAs) are described as urban or rural depending on whether the majority of the population falls inside a settlement of population 10,000 or more.
	Secondly, the classification enables areas to be defined as predominantly urban or predominantly town and fringe, predominantly village or predominantly dispersed (which includes hamlets and isolated dwellings). The town and fringe, village, hamlet and isolated dwelling classifications are taken as being rural.

Disabled Students' Allowance

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 
	(1)  how many postgraduate students claimed the disabled students' allowance in each of the last five years;
	(2)  how many  (a) part-time and  (b) full-time students claimed the disabled students' allowance in each of the last five years.

Bill Rammell: The number of student support scheme students in England and Wales in receipt of a disabled students' allowance between 2001/02 and 2005/06 is given in the table:
	
		
			  Academic year  2001/02  2002/03  2003/04( 1)  2004/05  2005/06( 2) 
			 Postgraduate students(3) 730 1,000 n/a 2,060 2,040 
			 Part-time undergraduate students(3) 740 1,040 n/a 1,730 1,750 
			 Full-time undergraduate students(3) 18,690 24,750 n/a 30,510 30,840 
			 (1) Due to a change in reporting arrangements, data are not centrally available for 2003/04.(2) Provisional.(3) Numbers rounded to the nearest 10 students.   Source: DfES F503G survey of Local Authorities, Student Loans Company (SLC)

School Leavers

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of school leavers in Hornsey and Wood Green went on to  (a) higher education,  (b) university and  (c) further vocational education in each of the last five years.

Bill Rammell: The latest available figures on participation in higher education by constituency were published by the Higher Education funding Council for England in January 2005 in "Young Participation in England", which is available from their website at http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2005/05_03/ This report shows participation rates for young people who enter higher education aged 18 or 19, disaggregated by constituency, for the years 1997 to 2000. The figures for Hornsey and Wood Green, and the comparable figure for England, are shown in the table. HEFCE have not produced participation rates beyond 2000.
	
		
			  Young participation rate (YPR (a)) in higher education 
			   1997  1998  1999  2000 
			 Year cohort aged 18 in Hornsey and Wood Green (Number) 1,030 990 1,050 1,000 
			 Participation rate for Hornsey and Wood Green(1) (Percentage) 44 45 45 44 
			 Participation rate for England (Percentage) 29.2 28.8 29.2 29.9 
			 (1) Participation rates for constituencies are reported to the nearest whole number.   Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England. 
		
	
	The total number of entrants from Hornsey and Wood Green for each year since 2001/02 are given in the table:
	
		
			  Entrants to undergraduate courses from Hornsey and Wood Green 
			   2001/02  2002/03  2003/04  2004/05 
			 Aged 18-19 455 505 520 530 
			 Aged Over 19 1,505 1,535 1,375 1,295 
			 Total Entrants 1,960 2,040 1,895 1,825 
			  Note:  Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5, so components may not sum to totals.   Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). 
		
	
	The Department uses the higher education initial participation rate (HEIPR) to assess progress on increasing first-time participation of English students aged 18-30 in higher education towards 50 per cent.: the latest provisional figure for 2004/05 is 42 per cent. The HEIPR is not calculated at constituency level.
	Figures on participation in further education by young people are not available for parliamentary constituencies. Figures are available by local education authority but not for individual inner London LEAs.

Social Services

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children have been  (a) abused and  (b) killed while under the care of or after the engagement of the duty of care of the social services in each year since 2001.

Parmjit Dhanda: Information on the number of children abused or killed while under the care of social services (that is, children who are "looked after" by their local authority for the purposes of the Children Act 1989) is not collected centrally.
	However, information on the number of looked after children who die each year and the official causes of death is collected and shown in table 1. This information has been collected by the Department since 2003. All numbers stated are rounded.
	
		
			  Cause of death of children looked after( 1,2,3) 
			   Number of children  Percentage 
			   2003  2004  2005  2003  2004  2005 
			  All children looked after at 31 March 67,600 68,100 67,700 100 100 100 
			 All children excluding children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements 60,800 61,100 60,900 90 90 90 
			 Children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements 6,800 6,900 6,800 10 10 10 
			
			  Total number of children who died and cause of death( 4) 110 95 100 100 100 100 
			 Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases — 10 5 — 7 6 
			 Diseases of the nervous system 30 25 15 26 23 15 
			  Of which:   
			 Episodic and paroxysmal disorders (epilepsy) 5 10 — 6 7 — 
			 Cerebral palsy and other paralytic syndromes 20 10 10 17 10 8 
			
			 Diseases of the respiratory system 10 — 10 9 — 9 
			 Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities 20 5 15 17 6 14 
			 Diseases of blood, heart and circulatory system 5 5 5 6 6 6 
			 External causes of morbidity and mortality 20 10 10 20 9 10 
			 Other 20 5 10 17 6 7 
			 Not known — 30 30 — 29 27 
			 (1) Figures include children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements.  (2) Derived from SSDA903 return.  (3) Underlying cause of death code derived by the automatic cause coding system using the codes for all the causes mentioned on the death certificate. The definition of the code is identified using the International Classification of Deaths, 10th Revision (ICD10) manual.  (4) Since these data were first collected in 2003 approximately one-third of the children who died, for each year, were looked after under an agreed series of short term placements.   Notes:  1. 2002-03 figures have been grossed up from a one third sample.  2. The data were collected by matching child records from SSDA903 to death certificates. A special matching exercise was carried out for the 2002-03 data, so there was a low rate of mismatch. The normal data collection was used in 2003-04 and 2004-05, and it was not possible to uniquely identify one third of the records. Therefore results need to be treated with caution.

Special Needs Education

Mark Durkan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding has been allocated to special needs education in England in each of the last five years, broken down by parliamentary constituency.

Phil Hope: The information requested is submitted to the Department according to local education authority areas rather than at constituency level. The following table contains the available information:
	
		
			  Budgeted net expenditure on the provision of education for children with special educational( 1, 2)  needs by local authorities since 2002-03. Cash terms figures( 3)  as reported by local authorities( 4)  as at 5 September 2006( 5) 
			  £ 
			   Budgeted net expenditure on the education of children with special educational needs( 1,) ( 2) 
			  Local authority  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07 
			 England 3,038,661,000 3,466,180,000 3,774,757,000 4,120,549,000 4,474,683,000 
			 Barking and Dagenham 17,099,000 18,891,000 23,316,000 25,070,000 26,652,000 
			 Barnet 17,212,000 18,804,000 20,699,000 21,963,000 23,408,000 
			 Barnsley 19,137,000 21,263,000 23,350,000 23,908,000 25,700,000 
			 Bath and North East Somerset 17,190,000 27,098,000 27,139,000 27,051,000 31,277,000 
			 Bedfordshire 9,064,000 11,289,000 12,721,000 13,564,000 14,737,000 
			 Bexley 16,549,000 23,357,000 22,286,000 27,542,000 30,201,000 
			 Birmingham 14,984,000 16,562,000 18,082,000 18,491,000 19,167,000 
			 Blackburn and Darwen 8,774,000 9,979,000 11,076,000 10,574,000 11,475,000 
			 Blackpool 6,295,000 7,723,000 8,358,000 8,459,000 9,472,000 
			 Bolton 18,690,000 20,443,000 23,688,000 35,951,000 28,174,000 
			 Bournemouth 27,346,000 31,417,000 39,689,000 42,763,000 45,838,000 
			 Bracknell Forest 20,328,000 27,267,000 30,944,000 35,692,000 39,836,000 
			 Bradford 12,466,000 15,930,000 18,090,000 19,091,000 20,715,000 
			 Brent 29,588,000 36,621,000 41,540,000 46,063,000 57,542,000 
			 Brighton and Hove 11,634,000 13,134,000 13,464,000 13,766,000 14,776,000 
			 Bromley 11,099,000 12,551,000 13,375,000 15,915,000 16,940,000 
			 Buckinghamshire 35,864,000 31,827,000 35,502,000 44,326,000 47,650,000 
			 Bury 9,753,000 10,931,000 11,073,000 11,452,000 11,664,000 
			 Calderdale 5,460,000 6,869,000 7,434,000 8,093,000 8,938,000 
			 Cambridgeshire 17,211,000 10,163,000 11,886,000 12,850,000 24,799,000 
			 Camden 26,784,000 31,236,000 33,519,000 35,919,000 39,566,000 
			 Cheshire 10,653,000 13,096,000 15,107,000 15,810,000 19,076,000 
			 City of Bristol 33,762,000 37,824,000 26,340,000 48,686,000 52,841,000 
			 City of Kingston-upon-Hull 17,972,000 18,928,000 21,131,000 22,269,000 24,772,000 
			 City of London 11,935,000 12,812,000 15,361,000 17,273,000 10,185,000 
			 Cornwall 18,181,000 17,295,000 19,097,000 22,321,000 26,658,000 
			 Coventry 26,055,000 29,866,000 31,959,000 33,357,000 35,502,000 
			 Croydon 9,503,000 13,950,000 14,336,000 15,728,000 17,758,000 
			 Cumbria 18,815,000 19,980,000 25,704,000 27,833,000 26,843,000 
			 Darlington 17,414,000 15,686,000 17,456,000 18,088,000 18,386,000 
			 Derby 8,780,000 16,444,000 18,301,000 20,320,000 21,956,000 
			 Derbyshire 29,158,000 32,934,000 36,021,000 38,168,000 42,193,000 
			 Devon 43,505,000 52,707,000 59,548,000 62,075,000 63,829,000 
			 Doncaster 16,395,000 20,330,000 21,412,000 23,867,000 27,061,000 
			 Dorset 33,316,000 34,350,000 39,028,000 32,012,000 36,964,000 
			 Dudley 17,670,000 19,074,000 19,641,000 21,624,000 22,788,000 
			 Durham 14,787,000 16,936,000 18,620,000 20,337,000 23,188,000 
			 Ealing 36,290,000 44,958,000 42,980,000 45,120,000 47,217,000 
			 East Riding of Yorkshire 14,476,000 16,418,000 18,893,000 19,778,000 21,666,000 
			 East Sussex 7,613,000 5,411,000 9,086,000 9,383,000 10,368,000 
			 Enfield 13,056,000 15,388,000 16,790,000 19,673,000 19,867,000 
			 Essex 11,517,000 13,819,000 17,297,000 19,099,000 16,310,000 
			 Gateshead 12,973,000 13,548,000 13,715,000 14,292,000 14,481,000 
			 Gloucestershire 10,150,000 11,357,000 12,315,000 13,275,000 15,056,000 
			 Greenwich 11,632,000 13,108,000 13,937,000 14,700,000 15,964,000 
			 Hackney 7,846,000 8,522,000 8,743,000 9,639,000 10,017,000 
			 Halton 20,208,000 23,129,000 26,440,000 28,224,000 28,555,000 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 18,838,000 24,669,000 26,198,000 27,455,000 31,224,000 
			 Hampshire 8,259,000 6,780,000 10,324,000 12,313,000 13,390,000 
			 Haringey 36,732,000 43,613,000 47,962,000 58,423,000 65,851,000 
			 Harrow 28,361,000 30,917,000 30,758,000 32,844,000 35,097,000 
			 Hartlepool 28,448,000 35,869,000 33,912,000 38,646,000 54,584,000 
			 Havering 17,033,000 19,679,000 21,643,000 22,823,000 23,838,000 
			 Herefordshire 69,738,000 82,021,000 93,017,000 100,952,000 106,330,000 
			 Hertfordshire 32,508,000 37,871,000 41,677,000 44,692,000 47,384,000 
			 Hillingdon 336,000 401,000 432,000 398,000 377,000 
			 Hounslow 24,489,000 28,480,000 29,051,000 29,923,000 34,862,000 
			 Isle of Wight 7,664,000 9,260,000 10,499,000 11,758,000 13,057,000 
			 Isles of Scilly 32,413,000 39,883,000 43,789,000 45,882,000 49,728,000 
			 Islington 17,731,000 21,465,000 21,511,000 23,460,000 25,723,000 
			 Kensington and Chelsea 99,409,000 113,255,000 124,938,000 131,932,000 148,725,000 
			 Kent 12,757,000 12,519,000 16,031,000 12,466,000 17,980,000 
			 Kingston upon Thames 19,805,000 22,373,000 24,564,000 25,827,000 27,627,000 
			 Kirklees 84,874,000 117,265,000 100,270,000 133,843,000 128,769,000 
			 Knowsley 19,667,000 23,536,000 26,770,000 27,851,000 28,435,000 
			 Lambeth 14,392,000 16,207,000 17,320,000 19,210,000 20,652,000 
			 Lancashire 10,765,000 12,565,000 12,509,000 13,614,000 14,437,000 
			 Leeds 10,363,000 10,671,000 12,073,000 13,095,000 13,900,000 
			 Leicester 13,400,000 14,687,000 15,671,000 17,076,000 18,455,000 
			 Leicestershire 7,935,000 10,085,000 11,679,000 12,170,000 11,465,000 
			 Lewisham 9,985,000 12,895,000 12,827,000 13,556,000 14,241,000 
			 Lincolnshire 50,632,000 54,732,000 58,883,000 51,014,000 76,617,000 
			 Liverpool 69,328,000 75,876,000 81,359,000 87,946,000 96,982,000 
			 Luton 10,599,000 11,905,000 15,837,000 16,151,000 17,038,000 
			 Manchester 9,280,000 10,297,000 12,558,000 13,901,000 12,063,000 
			 Medway 10,584,000 12,381,000 13,271,000 14,151,000 14,978,000 
			 Merton 21,252,000 24,969,000 25,453,000 29,434,000 31,037,000 
			 Middlesbrough 18,325,000 22,817,000 24,297,000 24,726,000 26,626,000 
			 Milton Keynes 34,506,000 36,174,000 41,370,000 44,064,000 48,735,000 
			 Newcastle upon Tyne 20,900,000 23,896,000 26,150,000 27,537,000 29,986,000 
			 Newham 29,097,000 28,807,000 29,383,000 29,903,000 32,848,000 
			 Norfolk 9,760,000 11,901,000 12,750,000 17,506,000 18,241,000 
			 North East Lincolnshire 24,554,000 28,901,000 31,592,000 37,180,000 39,891,000 
			 North Lincolnshire 38,304,000 42,233,000 44,946,000 48,604,000 51,472,000 
			 North Somerset 28,671,000 26,140,000 25,510,000 29,166,000 31,394,000 
			 North Tyneside 86,666,000 99,347,000 106,320,000 109,113,000 118,120,000 
			 North Yorkshire 8,609,000 11,888,000 12,432,000 13,955,000 17,938,000 
			 Northamptonshire 18,177,000 20,046,000 21,306,000 21,391,000 21,879,000 
			 Northumberland 20,829,000 23,839,000 25,703,000 28,149,000 30,429,000 
			 Nottingham City 12,073,000 14,494,000 15,917,000 17,799,000 18,355,000 
			 Nottinghamshire 22,926,000 27,202,000 29,593,000 33,297,000 37,003,000 
			 Oldham 64,668,000 72,771,000 78,183,000 81,129,000 84,592,000 
			 Oxfordshire 6,284,000 7,904,000 9,269,000 10,503,000 11,987,000 
			 Peterborough 11,973,000 13,003,000 14,289,000 14,693,000 15,464,000 
			 Plymouth 13,252,000 14,181,000 17,038,000 20,558,000 19,475,000 
			 Poole 13,056,000 14,871,000 15,819,000 17,680,000 17,486,000 
			 Portsmouth 14,655,000 16,587,000 19,880,000 20,907,000 24,039,000 
			 Reading 11,125,000 12,335,000 13,814,000 14,757,000 18,464,000 
			 Redbridge 5,122,000 6,133,000 6,699,000 7,490,000 7,890,000 
			 Redcar and Cleveland 12,696,000 13,467,000 14,001,000 16,888,000 19,476,000 
			 Richmond upon Thames 15,314,000 18,185,000 22,029,000 24,248,000 27,015,000 
			 Rochdale 20,411,000 21,628,000 26,314,000 27,455,000 29,883,000 
			 Rotherham 8,425,000 9,394,000 9,933,000 10,429,000 10,356,000 
			 Rutland 18,004,000 19,876,000 21,618,000 23,492,000 23,823,000 
			 Salford 12,030,000 14,794,000 18,630,000 20,632,000 20,509,000 
			 Sandwell 26,424,000 29,875,000 30,293,000 30,273,000 36,640,000 
			 Sefton 30,971,000 33,530,000 36,562,000 39,161,000 42,524,000 
			 Sheffield 57,000 58,000 53,000 221,000 211,000 
			 Shropshire 15,103,000 18,328,000 18,826,000 22,217,000 25,110,000 
			 Slough 26,714,000 29,068,000 30,023,000 33,934,000 37,238,000 
			 Solihull 22,588,000 23,075,000 24,729,000 25,931,000 29,365,000 
			 Somerset 21,377,000 24,853,000 25,931,000 27,849,000 31,093,000 
			 South Gloucestershire 14,765,000 15,673,000 17,867,000 17,431,000 21,541,000 
			 South Tyneside 42,897,000 46,444,000 50,882,000 53,623,000 55,013,000 
			 Southampton 6,781,000 9,432,000 10,360,000 10,817,000 10,454,000 
			 Southend 29,012,000 32,374,000 41,529,000 43,991,000 50,159,000 
			 Southwark 15,900,000 17,216,000 18,983,000 19,429,000 21,987,000 
			 St. Helens 11,292,000 10,722,000 12,226,000 14,414,000 16,503,000 
			 Staffordshire 1,486,000 1,714,000 1,933,000 2,395,000 2,268,000 
			 Stockport 7,505,000 7,889,000 8,252,000 8,923,000 9,444,000 
			 Stockton-on-Tees 9,034,000 10,111,000 11,311,000 13,092,000 17,145,000 
			 Stoke on Trent 15,763,000 18,548,000 20,283,000 30,012,000 24,211,000 
			 Suffolk 6,515,000 8,143,000 9,460,000 11,927,000 11,336,000 
			 Sunderland 20,411,000 21,414,000 22,926,000 29,747,000 32,235,000 
			 Surrey 16,178,000 18,295,000 19,566,000 21,135,000 22,545,000 
			 Sutton 51,128,000 57,146,000 61,514,000 66,796,000 72,772,000 
			 Swindon 15,122,000 16,495,000 17,523,000 18,539,000 20,391,000 
			 Tameside 9,607,000 10,842,000 11,452,000 12,489,000 14,174,000 
			 Telford and Wrekin 18,671,000 24,714,000 25,904,000 25,659,000 30,300,000 
			 Thurrock 11,856,000 15,693,000 20,825,000 21,171,000 19,993,000 
			 Torbay 12,659,000 15,175,000 16,172,000 17,330,000 18,584,000 
			 Tower Hamlets 9,590,000 10,517,000 10,705,000 11,179,000 14,080,000 
			 Trafford 10,433,000 12,403,000 13,027,000 13,781,000 14,840,000 
			 Wakefield 20,150,000 23,196,000 25,335,000 25,619,000 26,683,000 
			 Walsall 16,109,000 19,555,000 19,095,000 20,982,000 23,447,000 
			 Waltham Forest 38,267,000 43,144,000 44,722,000 50,157,000 55,916,000 
			 Wandsworth 5,812,000 7,661,000 8,010,000 8,756,000 9,824,000 
			 Warrington 9,477,000 11,612,000 12,156,000 12,037,000 13,067,000 
			 Warwickshire 22,755,000 25,648,000 28,741,000 32,292,000 41,723,000 
			 West Berkshire 8,453,000 10,715,000 12,419,000 13,993,000 14,381,000 
			 West Sussex 10,015,000 9,957,000 11,091,000 12,288,000 13,122,000 
			 Westminster 23,914,000 26,423,000 36,831,000 43,949,000 49,586,000 
			 Wigan 55,427,000 63,654,000 71,970,000 75,794,000 79,344,000 
			 Wiltshire 18,567,000 18,710,000 28,862,000 31,827,000 33,774,000 
			 Windsor and Maidenhead 12,581,000 15,244,000 16,280,000 17,467,000 17,638,000 
			 Wirral 21,328,000 23,425,000 26,412,000 27,615,000 27,874,000 
			 Wokingham 12,750,000 9,698,000 16,307,000 18,338,000 19,356,000 
			 Wolverhampton 32,784,000 37,086,000 41,167,000 43,380,000 46,760,000 
			 Worcestershire 15,259,000 16,863,000 18,707,000 20,432,000 22,261,000 
			 York 11,004,000 12,678,000 13,471,000 14,645,000 11,523,000 
			 (1) The information provided includes planned expenditure on the provision for pupils with statements and the provision for non-statemented pupils with SEN, support for inclusion, inter authority recoupment, fees for pupils at independent special schools and abroad, educational psychology service, local authority functions in relation to child protection, therapies and other health related services, parent partnership, guidance and information, the monitoring of SEN provision and inclusion administration, assessment and co-ordination. Also included is the funding delegated to primary and secondary schools identified as "notional SEN" and the individual schools budget (ISB) for special schools.(2) The ISB for special schools will include some general education costs for pupils with SEN in addition to those costs specifically for SEN while the figures recorded against "notional SEN" are only indicative of the amount that might be spent by schools on SEN and, from 2004-05 onwards "notional SEN" delegated to nursery schools was reported on Section 52 for the first time. In 2005-06, local authorities also budgeted for SEN transport expenditure but this is not included in the above table as figures not available prior to 2005-06.(3) Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand pounds and may not sum due to rounding.(4) Data is submitted to the DfES by local authorities and is drawn from Section 52 Budget statements (tables 1 and 2) and is subject to change.

Unfilled Teaching Posts

Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teaching posts have remained unfilled in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

Jim Knight: The information is not available in the format requested.
	The following table shows the number of full-time vacancies in local authority maintained schools in England in January of each year, and the vacancy rate.
	
		
			  Full-time vacancy rates( 1)  in local authority maintained schools in England, January of each year 
			  All vacancies 
			   Number  Rate 
			 1997 2,020 0.6 
			 1998 2,590 0.7 
			 1999 2,530 0.7 
			 2000 2,910 0.8 
			 2001 4,980 1.4 
			 2002 4,540 1.2 
			 2003 3,410 0.9 
			 2004 2,630 0.7 
			 2005 2,480 0.7 
			 2006 2,230 0.6 
			 (1) Advertised vacancies for full-time permanent appointments (or appointments of at least one term's duration). Includes vacancies being filled on a temporary basis of less than one term.   Note: Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.   Source: Survey of teachers in service and teacher vacancies, (618g).

Universities (Greater London)

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students were enrolled on degree courses at universities in Greater London in each of the last five years.

Bill Rammell: The latest available information is given in the table. Figures for 2005/06 will be available in January 2007.
	
		
			  First degree enrolments at London HE institutions, 2000/01 to 2004/05 
			  Academic year  Enrolments 
			 2000/01 167,675 
			 2001/02 172,875 
			 2002/03 178,960 
			 2003/04 180,485 
			 2004/05 186,175 
			  Note: Figures are on a HESA standard registration population basis and are rounded to the nearest 5.   Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

Young Asylum Seekers

Edward Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the cost to local authorities of caring for unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in each of the last three years.

Jim Knight: The Department does not collect this information centrally.
	The DfES provides funding towards meeting the costs of supporting unaccompanied asylum seeker care leavers, aged 18 and over. A total of £9 million was paid out in respect of the 2004-05 grant year, the first year of the grant. Claims for the 2005-06 grant year are still being submitted.
	The Home Office provides additional funding to local authorities over and above mainstream funding to support unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC), aged under 18. The claims submitted from local authorities to the Home Office for previous years have been:
	
		
			   £ million 
			 2002-03 152.97 
			 2003-04 157.21 
			 2004-05 158.14 
			 2005-06 (1)136.66 
			 (1 )Claims are still being submitted for this year.

Breast Cancer

Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 20 July 2006,  Official Report, column 655W, on breast cancer screening, what percentage of women eligible received screening in each year.

Rosie Winterton: The information requested is in the table:
	
		
			   Breast screening programme: coverage (percentage)( 1) 
			   Guildford and Waverley( 2)  Surrey( 3)  England 
			 1997-98 n/a 64.0 66.4 
			 1998-99 n/a 68.7 67.6 
			 1999-00 n/a 69.0 69.3 
			 2000-01 n/a 68.3 70.2 
			 2001-02 n/a 66.3 69.8 
			 2002-03 73.8 75.3 75.3 
			 2003-04 73.4 75.6 74.9 
			 2004-05 79.0 77.4 75.5 
			 (1) The coverage of the screening programme is the proportion of women resident who have had a test with a recorded result at least once in the previous three years.  (2) Data was not available at primary care trust level until 2002-03.  (3) East Surrey Health Authority and West Surrey Health Authority from 1997-98 to 2001-02, Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority from 2002-03 to 2004-05   Source:  Statistical bulletin - breast screening programme, England: 1997-98 to 2004-05

Connecting for Health Contracts

Richard Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the definition is under the terms of the Connecting for Health contracts to local service providers of a  (a) Severity 1 Service Failure and  (b) Severity 2 Service Failure; and how many of each there were in each local service provider area in (i) February 2006, (ii) March 2006 and (iii) April 2006.

Caroline Flint: Definitions of service failure severity levels are common to all local service provider (LSP) contracts.
	A Severity 1 service failure is a failure which, in the reasonable opinion of NHS Connecting for Health, the contractor, or a National Health Service system/service user has the potential to:
	have a significant adverse impact on the provision of the service to a large number of users; or
	have a significant adverse impact on the delivery of patient care to a large number of patients; or
	cause significant financial loss and/or disruption to NHS Connecting for Health, or the NHS; or
	result in any material loss or corruption of health data, or in the provision of incorrect data to an end user.
	A Severity 2 service failure is a failure which, in the reasonable opinion of NHS Connecting for Health, the contractor, or a national health service system/service user has the potential to have a significant adverse impact on the provision of the service to a small or moderate number of service users; or
	have a moderate adverse impact on the delivery of patient care to a significant number of service users; or
	have a significant adverse impact on the delivery of patient care to a small or moderate number of patients; or
	have a moderate adverse impact on the delivery of patient care to a high number of patients; or
	cause a financial loss and/or disruption to NHS Connecting for Health, or the NHS which is more than trivial but less severe than the significant financial loss described in the definition of a Severity 1 service failure.
	Details of severity 1 and 2 failures in each local service provider area for February to April 2006 are in the following table.
	
		
			   February  March  April 
			  LSP area  Severity 1  Severity 2  Severity 1  Severity 2  Severity 1  Severity 2 
			 Southern 4 8 8 11 7 32 
			 Eastern 8 15 5 6 0 12 
			 North East 9 14 2 3 0 8 
			 London 1 4 0 4 1 0 
			 North West and West Midlands 5 19 0 21 3 32 
		
	
	The definitions relate to the potential for adverse incidents. In practice, there is no evidence that these or other service failures have had any material impact on the quality of patient care.
	The service availability levels required for national programme for information technology (NPfTT) systems are exceptionally demanding compared with those which preceded the programme. Performance against these standards typically exceeds contracted levels. The overall data spine and LSP service availability delivered in 2005 and to date in 2006 compared to contracted service levels is shown in the following tables.
	
		
			  Spine services 
			  Period  Total targeted availability in user minutes (million)  Total actual availability delivered in user minutes (million)  Percentage variance against target 
			 2005 Q1 6,250 6,250 0 
			 2005 Q2 24,623 24,615 -0.03 
			 2005 Q3 62,195 62,367 +0.28 
			 2005 Q4 151,538 151,880 +0.23 
			 2006 Q1 297,455 298,198 +0.25 
			  Note: The contracted requirement was for the system to be available to users 99.8 per cent of the time up to March 2005, and 99.9 per cent of the time from April 2005 
		
	
	
		
			  LSP services 
			  Period  Total targeted availability in user minutes (million)  Total actual availability delivered in user minutes (million)  Percentage variance against target 
			 2005 Q1 208 216 +3.62 
			 2005 Q2 1,425 1,464 +2.73 
			 2005 Q3 2,238 2,277 +1.76 
			 2005 Q4 3,296 3,350 +1.65 
			 2006 Q1 5,629 5,845 +3.84 
		
	
	Details of service availability for live services, measured against contracted target availability, is routinely published, and updated weekly, on the NHS Connecting for Health website at:
	www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/delivery/servicemanagement/statistics/operational

Dentistry

Andrew Love: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists providing NHS treatment are available in  (a) Edmonton constituency,  (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) Greater London; and if she will make a statement.

Rosie Winterton: The number of NHS dental performers on open contracts in the specified strategic health authority (SHA) and primary care trust (PCT) as at 30 June 2006 is provided in the following table. Information is collected by primary care trust and strategic health authority area and is provided in this format.
	
		
			   Number 
			 London SHA 3,504 
			  of which:  
			 Enfield PCT 167 
			  Notes: 1. The new NHS dental contract was introduced on 1 April 2006. Data from this date are not comparable with numbers provided under the old contractual arrangements.  2. A performer is defined as a dentist who has been set up on the dental practice division (DPD) Payments online (POL) system by the PCT to work under an open contract as at 30 June 2006. Data provided are a count of the individuals listed as performers on open contracts.  3. Under the new contract arrangements PCTs agree a specified annual level of NHS dental treatment, known as units of dental activity (UDAs).  4. In some cases an NHS dentist may appear on a PCT list but not perform any NHS work in that period.  5. Data consists of performers in general dental services (GDS), personal dental services (PDS) and trust-led dental services.  6. Data as per report run by the DPD of the NHS BSA on 31 August 2006.  7. Figures for the numbers of dentists at specified dates may vary depending on the date the figures are compiled. This is because the NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) may be notified of joiners or leavers up to several months, or more, after the move has taken place.   Sources: The Information Centre for health and social care NHS Business Services Authority (BSA).

Drugs Rehabilitation

Claire Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was allocated for drug rehabilitation centres and courses in  (a) 2005-06 and  (b) 2006-07 in (i) England and (ii) the region of Merseyside; and what the estimate is for 2007-08.

Caroline Flint: We are unable to determine specific allocated funding for drug rehabilitation centres and courses. The pooled drug treatment budget (PTB), is allocated to drug action teams (DATs) throughout the country, who use the funding to commission all forms of drug treatment services to best meet local need. The PTB for 2005-06 and 2006-07 is shown in table 1, in addition to estimated local mainstream funding. The allocation in these years for DATs within Cheshire and Merseyside strategic health authority (SHA) is shown in table 2. We are unable to estimate drug treatment allocations for 2007-08.
	
		
			  Table 1:Yearly funding 
			  £ million 
			   PTB  Local mainstream funding  Total 
			 2005-06 300 208 508 
			 2006-07 385 212 597 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2:Cheshire and Merseyside SHA 
			   £ million 
			 2005-06 17,230 
			 2006-07 22.195

Patient and Public Involvement Forums

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been given to patient and public involvement forums in each of the last three years.

Rosie Winterton: Funding for patient and public involvement forums is delivered through grant in aid to the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health. The Commission has received the following funding over the last three years:
	
		
			  (£ million) 
			 2006-07 28 
			 2005-06 31.681 
			 2004-05 33.313

Primary Care Trusts Chief Executives

Anthony Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the  (a) salaries and  (b) salary scales are of the chief executives of each of the 14 primary care trusts in the South West.

Rosie Winterton: The Department does not collect information on the salaries of individual primary care trust (PCT) chief executives. However, the pay of PCT chief executives is a matter of public record and published in PCTs' annual accounts.
	On 26 July 2006, the Department published a new national pay framework for very senior managers in the NHS, which includes PCT chief executives. This has been placed in the Library and is available at www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidanceArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4137432&chk=IRruNI
	This new pay framework introduces spot rate salaries for the chief executive role (i.e. a fixed basic 'rate for the job' with no annual increments) which, in the 14 primary care trusts in the South West, will be:
	
		
			  PCTS  PCT band  Spot rates (October 2006-07 rates)  Spot rates (November 2006-07 Rates) 
			 South West strategic health authority Q39
			 Bournemouth and Poole Teaching 3 119,896 12-1,320 
			 Dorset 3 119,896 121,320 
			 Somerset 4 130,322 131,870 
			 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 4 130,322 131,870 
			 Devon 4 130,322 131,870 
			 Plymouth Teaching 2 109,470 110,771 
			 Torbay Care Trust 2 109,470 110,771 
			 Bristol Teaching 3 119,896 121,320 
			 Bath and North East Somerset 2 109,470 110,771 
			 Gloucestershire 4 130,322 131,870 
			 North Somerset 2 109,470 110,771 
			 South Gloucestershire 2 109,470 110,771 
			 Swindon 2 109,470 110,771 
			 Wiltshire 3 119,896 121,320 
			  Note:The two sets of rates reflect the staged pay award for 2006-07 announced by Secretary of State on 30 March 2006.

Unsafe Food

Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many  (a) illnesses,  (b) hospitalisations and  (c) deaths have been caused in England by unsafe food in each year since 2000.

Caroline Flint: The estimated number of  (a) illnesses,  (b) hospitalisations and  (c) deaths in England and Wales due to indigenous foodborne disease from 2000 to 2005 are given in the following table.
	
		
			   Total cases  Hospitalisations  Deaths 
			 2000 1,338,000 20,800 480 
			 2001 (1)— (1)— (1)— 
			 2002 (1)— (1)— (1)— 
			 2003 843,000 17,200 440 
			 2004 835,000 17,400 570 
			 2005 765,000 17,300 470 
			 (1 )Estimates for 2001 and 2002 are not available. Notes:Estimates for England only are not available.Estimates have been rounded to the nearest 1,000 for total cases, 100 for hospitalisations and 10 for deaths.Figures were estimated by the Health Protection Agency using the methodology described in Adak G K, Long S M, O'Brien SJ. Gut 2002, 51;832-841. This methodology uses available surveillance data, special survey data, and hospital episode statistics to estimate the burden of foodborne disease in England and Wales.

Waiting Times

Peter Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people resident in  (a) England and  (b) Wales had been waiting more than six months for an NHS in-patient operation in an English hospital at the end of (i) July and (ii) August 2006.

Andy Burnham: The information requested is shown in the table.
	
		
			  Number of patients waiting over 26 weeks for inpatient admission 
			   Jul 2006  Aug 2006 
			 Provider based, ie patients waiting in English NHS Trusts 900 827 
			 —of which, patients from Welsh commissioners 876 739 
			 Commissioner based. ie patients for whom English commissioners are responsible 46 115 
			 —of which, patients waiting at Welsh NHS Trusts 16 19 
			  Source:  Monthly monitoring return

Cycling Offences

Anthony Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions have taken place in the principal cities of England and Wales in each of the last three years of cyclists for failing to display, during hours of darkness,  (a) front lights,  (b) rear lights and  (c) front or back lights.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The information requested is provided in the following table. It is not possible to identify on the basis of principal cities for England and Wales as the data held centrally are not collected at that level of detail.
	From the table, it is also not possible to separate those who were prosecuted for failing to display pedal cycle lighting from those who were prosecuted for reflector offences. Of those who were prosecuted for failing to display pedal cycle lighting we cannot further separate those who were prosecuted for  (a) front lights,  (b) rear lights and  (c) front or back lights.
	Court proceedings data for 2005 will be available in mid November 2006.
	
		
			  Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts, for offences relating to pedal cycle lighting offences( 1)  broken down by police force area in England and Wales, 2002-04( 2, 3) 
			  Force  2002  2003  2004 
			 Avon and Somerset 2 1 1 
			 Bedfordshire 1 0 0 
			 Cambridgeshire 1 0 0 
			 Cheshire 7 0 3 
			 City of London 0 0 1 
			 Cleveland 7 1 2 
			 Cumbria 14 12 43 
			 Devon and Cornwall 4 1 1 
			 Dorset 3 0 2 
			 Durham 3 1 0 
			 Essex 2 0 1 
			 Gloucestershire 0 0 1 
			 Greater Manchester 13 21 7 
			 Hampshire 21 14 8 
			 Humberside 23 22 9 
			 Kent 0 1 0 
			 Lancashire 5 5 3 
			 Lincolnshire 5 1 1 
			 Merseyside 4 2 5 
			 Metropolitan Police 0 1 4 
			 Norfolk 3 1 8 
			 North Yorkshire 9 78 8 
			 Northumbria 25 29 34 
			 Nottinghamshire 2 1 0 
			 South Yorkshire 1 1 0 
			 Staffordshire 2 2 0 
			 Suffolk 4 1 5 
			 Surrey 1 0 0 
			 Sussex 0 1 0 
			 Thames Valley 0 1 2 
			 Warwickshire 0 0 6 
			 West Mercia 7 5 8 
			 West Midlands 1 2 2 
			 Wiltshire 3 2 1 
			 Dyfed-Powys 4 1 2 
			 Gwent 2 2 0 
			 North Wales 0 1 1 
			 South Wales 1 2 6 
			 Total 180 213 175 
			 (1) Statute is: Road Traffic Act 1988 sec. 81(2). Road Vehicle Lighting Regs1989. Offence Description is: Pedal cycle lighting and reflector offences (RVL Regs 1984). Offences in respect of pedal cycles.  (2) These data are provided on the principal offence basis.  (3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.   Source:  RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform

Cycling Offences

Anthony Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions there have been of cyclists for riding on pavements in the last three years.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The number of cyclists prosecuted at magistrates court, for offences relating to cyclists riding on pavements in England and Wales, 2002 to 2004 can be found in the following table.
	Data for 2005 will be available in mid November 2006.
	
		
			  Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts, for riding a pedal cycle on a footpath( 1)  in England and Wales, 2002 to 2004( 2) 
			   Proceeded against 
			 2002 94 
			 2003 95 
			 2004 118 
			 (1) Offence under the Highway Act 1835 section 32.  (2) These data are provided on the principal offence basis.   Note:  Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.   Source:  RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform

Trade

Michael Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what percentage of gross national product (GNP) was traded with  (a) the EU,  (b) the US and  (c) the rest of the world for each year since 1980; and what percentage of GNP was traded in each year.

Ian McCartney: Figures for exports and imports of goods and services as a percentage of UK gross national income are shown in the following table.
	
		
			   (a) European Union 15  (b) United States  (c) Rest of the World  Total 
			 1980 — — — 52.7 
			 1981 — — — 51.0 
			 1982 — — — 51.3 
			 1983 — — — 52.2 
			 1984 — — — 56.9 
			 1985 — — — 57.1 
			 1986 — — — 52.2 
			 1987 — — — 52.3 
			 1988 — — — 49.8 
			 1989 — — — 51.8 
			 1990 — — — 51.3 
			 1991 — — — 47.9 
			 1992 27.2 6.5 15.0 48.7 
			 1993 27.7 7.5 17.1 52.3 
			 1994 28.8 7.7 17.3 53.7 
			 1995 31.3 8.0 18.1 57.4 
			 1996 31.7 8.7 19.0 59.4 
			 1997 30.0 8.6 18.8 57.4 
			 1998 28.9 8.4 16.9 54.2 
			 1999 29.3 8.7 16.7 54.7 
			 2000 30.2 9.4 18.5 58.1 
			 2001 30.1 9.0 17.9 57.0 
			 2002 29.5 8.3 16.8 54.6 
			 2003 27.9 7.9 17.2 53.0 
			 2004 27.2 7.5 18.0 52.6 
			 2005 28.1 7.2 19.6 55.0 
			  Notes:  1. Gross national income is measured at market prices.  2. A geographical breakdown is not available on a consistent basis before 1992.  3. European Union 15 covers trade with Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, European institutions, and the ECB. Also including Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia would give figures of 28.3 in 2004 and 29.4 in 2005.

Departmental Staff

Jeremy Hunt: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of  (a) staff and  (b) new staff employed since April 2005 in (i) his Department and (ii) each of the agencies for which he has responsibility is recorded as disabled.

John Healey: The number of staff recorded as disabled, including joiners and leavers since 2003, is published on the Cabinet Office website: http://civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/reports/index.asp. The number of leavers and joiners recorded as disabled prior to 2003 is as follows:
	
		
			   Joiners  Leavers 
			   Percentage of total 
			 2001 2.1 0.92 
			 2002 1.8 1.49 
		
	
	The actual numbers of joiners and leavers are less than 10 and have therefore not been disclosed in order to protect the anonymity of individuals.

Departmental Staff (Sickness Absence)

David Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 28 June 2006,  Official Report, column 414W, on sickness absence, how many staff in his Department have had  (a) more than two and  (b) five or more periods of sickness of less than five days in two or more of the years for which he has provided figures.

John Healey: The number of staff who had  (a) more than two and  (b) more than five periods of sickness of less than five days in two or more of the last three years are as follows:
	
		
			  Spells of sickness absence 
			   (a) Two, three or four spells  (b) Five or more spells 
			 Had absence in 2003-04 and 2004-05 73 17 
			 Had absence in 2004-05 and 2005-06 67 17 
			 Had absence in all three years 46 10

HM Revenue and Customs

Mark Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many anti-fraud/compliance officers were employed by the Inland Revenue and HM Revenue and Customs in  (a) 2004-05 and  (b) 2005-06, broken down by grade; and how many of each grade are expected to be employed in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08.

Dawn Primarolo: The number of full time equivalent staff, by grade, employed in HMRC's operational compliance and enforcement directorates at 1 April 2006 is shown in the following table. This includes some support and processing staff.
	
		
			  Number 
			  SCS  Grade 6  Grade 7  Fast Stream  SEO  HEO  EO  AO  AA  Total 
			 121 586 1,305 566 1,927 6,943 12,317 5,725 2,164 31,654 
		
	
	There are no comparable figures for the previous year as the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise, which merged to form HMRC on 18 April 2005, were organised differently both from each other and from HMRC. Over 1,000 investigative staff also transferred from HMRC to the new Serious Organised Crime Agency towards the end of 2005-06. No estimates by grade are yet available for 2006-07 and 2007-8.

Tax Revenue

Philip Dunne: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in the UK paid  (a) stamp duty and  (b) capital gains tax in (i) 2005-06, (ii) 1997-98 and (iii) 1979-80; and what each figure represents as a percentage of the population in each year.

Edward Balls: The available information is given in the following table. Figures for 1979-80 are not available.
	
		
			   1997-98  2005-06 
			 Number of residential liable transactions (1)665 (2)873 
			 Geographical entity England, Wales and Northern Ireland United Kingdom 
			 As percentage of population 1.25 1.45 
			 (1) Number of transactions above stamp duty threshold (£60,000). No information available on reliefs.  (2 )This figure is net of transactions above the stamp duty threshold (£120,000) where stamp duty was not payable due to the use of reliefs, eg disadvantaged area relief. 
		
	
	The total number of people, and trusts, in the UK, who pay capital gains tax is published on the HM Revenue and Customs website in table 14.1 at the following address: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/capital_gains/menu.htm.
	The numbers for the required years are given as follows. Figures for 2005-06 are not available so figures for the latest available year, 2004-05, have been given (populations used were mid-1979, mid-1997 and mid-2004 respectively).
	
		
			   Number of taxpayers (thousand)  Percentage of population (mid-1979, mid-1997, mid-2004) 
			 1979-80 212 0.38 
			 1997-98 170 0.29 
			 2004-05 186 0.31 
		
	
	A direct comparison across these years is misleading as before the introduction of 'Independent Taxation' in 1990-91 each taxpaying married couple counted as one individual. Since 1990-91 husbands and wives both with CGT liabilities have been counted separately.

UK Investment

Jim Cousins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much UK investment was made abroad in each year since 2001; and how much foreign investment was made into the UK as a percentage of total investment in the UK in each such year.

John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
	 Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 12 October 2006:
	As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how much UK investment was made abroad in each year since 2001; and how much foreign investment was made into the UK as a percentage of total investment in the UK in each such year. (92784)
	
		
			  £ billion 
			   UK investment abroad  Foreign investment in the UK  Total investment in the UK  % foreign investment 
			 2001 307.3 324.8 704.5 46 
			 2002 181.4 188.6 618.6 30 
			 2003 346.3 366.8 938.2 39 
			 2004 540.8 546.4 1191.7 46 
			 2005 719.5 738.1 1381.7 53 
		
	
	The above table shows UK investment abroad and foreign investment in the UK. The data are consistent with the Sector and Financial Accounts published on 27 September 2006 and available on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme economy/ukea2006q2.pdf